About Vulcan

Birmingham Slag Company, a family-owned construction materials company, is founded by Henry Badham and Solon Jacobs.

Birmingham Slag remains profitable under the Ireland’s leadership until 1932, when the world economy is affected by the Great Depression. After the Depression, Birmingham Slag Company begins to grow in earnest.

Birmingham Slag begins a three-year contract providing construction materials for the war effort, including Oak Ridge, Redstone Arsenal and other major military projects.

Birmingham Slag has 600 employees, sales of more than $20 million, and net profits between $1.5 million and $2 million per year.

Bernard A. Monaghan, a prominent lawyer and former Rhodes Scholar and World War II hero joins Birmingham Slag. He helps engineer a merger with the Vulcan Detinning Company of Sewaren, New Jersey, so that Birmingham Slag can become a publicly traded company under Vulcan Detinning’s listing on the New York Stock Exchange. The new company is renamed Vulcan Materials Company, gaining access to the capital markets that will help it grow.

Vulcan’s Chemicals Division is formed as a result of the merger with Union Chemicals and Materials Corporation.

Vulcan purchases W.E. Graham & Sons, a North Carolina family-owned aggregates and general contracting firm.

Vulcan’s Chemicals Division moves its headquarters from Wichita, Kansas, to Birmingham, Alabama.

Companywide sales reach $783 million, ranking Vulcan Materials Company 367 in the Fortune 500.

Vulcan constructs and operates the first commercial-size membrane cell chloralkali facility in the U.S. at its Wichita, Kansas, plant.

Vulcan acquires White’s Mines, Inc. and affiliated companies, greatly expanding Texas construction materials operations.

Donald M. James becomes president of Vulcan Materials Company. In 1997, Mr. James becomes CEO and is elected chairman. He serves as CEO until 2014 and Executive Chairman until January 2015.

Vulcan begins construction of a new plant in Geismar, Louisiana, to produce HCC 240fa, a feedstock for a new generation of ozone-friendly hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) used in insulation and construction foam products.

Vulcan acquires its partner Grupo ICA’s interests in the Crescent Market Companies, an international joint venture that produces aggregates in the Yucatan Peninsula and transports and sells them in various markets primarily along the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Vulcan celebrates its 50th anniversary as a publicly held company.

Vulcan divests its cement and concrete businesses in Florida and South Georgia to Cementos Argos, with Vulcan retaining all of the Company’s aggregates facilities in Florida and entering into a long-term aggregates supply agreement with Argos.

Vulcan acquires aggregate operations that enhance the greater Dallas market. The Company completes the acquisition of one quarry in southern Oklahoma with rail distribution capabilities into Texas and two distribution yards in the Dallas area.

Vulcan concludes an asset swap with CEMEX, exchanging Southern California ready-mix concrete operations for 13 asphalt plants, primarily in Arizona. This further expands the Company’s strategic focus in the Arizona asphalt market. Under the agreement, Vulcan continues to supply aggregates to the concrete operations.

Vulcan launches MyVulcan.com, a new online customer service center, giving customers direct control of their Vulcan accounts. The website allows customers to view tickets and orders, track orders and pay bills online.

Vulcan receives approval for new greenfield site quarries in the Central Valley of California, Medina County in Texas and greater Columbia in South Carolina.

Vulcan enters the Tennessee asphalt market through the acquisition of several asphalt mix operations and a construction paving business, from LoJac Holdings Corporation.

Vulcan reaches a definitive agreement with SPO Partners to acquire its aggregates business, Aggregates USA LLC. Aggregates USA LLC operates 31 facilities serving high growth markets in Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, South Carolina and Virginia.

Vulcan exits the Georgia ready-mixed concrete market, selling its assets to Thomas Concrete Group in exchange for long-term aggregates supply agreements.

Vulcan launches its updated Corporate Social Responsibility website.

Vulcan Materials Company acquires U.S. Concrete, significantly expanding the Company's footprint to 22 states, four countries and increases the geographic reach in attractive growing metropolitan areas. The acquisition significantly increases our ready-mix operations in California and Texas and expands our geographic scope into New York and New Jersey. Together, Vulcan is positioned to leverage our unique and irreplaceable asset base and blue water network, making Vulcan the most valuable aggregates franchise in the world.